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Quality cancer care requires identifying and addressing the psychosocial needs of cancer patients. Oncology social workers have long been on the forefront of this endeavor. Although there has been longstanding interest in screening cancer patients for distress, it has recently been included as a quality of care metric in institutions accredited by the American College of Surgeons. Implementing routine screening for distress in oncology settings requires thoughtful planning, including assessing various screening instruments and considering a host of variables within each practice setting. Oncology social workers are best positioned to provide leadership in operationalizing this mandate and to lead their team in the choice of a distress measure for compliance with the screening guideline. This article highlights the most popular distress screening measures used in oncology and their psychometric properties.

"Scientific evidence was summarized and conceptual and practical issues were reviewed as they relate to stress management at the worksite. Topics included assessing occupational stress, organizational stress and health, organizational stress assessme...

Background : International humanitarian aid workers providing care in emergencies are subjected to numerous chronic and traumatic stressors. : Objectives : To examine consequences of such experiences on aid workers' mental health and how the impact i...

Through the National Healthy Worksite Program (NHWP), numerous training opportunities will be provided within NHWP communities and nationally through webinar-based programs. The Worksite Health 101 training curriculum will be used for all NHWP traini...

Objective: : There is growing interest in the NIOSH Total Worker Health® (TWH) program, specifically in the process of designing and implementing safer, health-promoting work and workplaces. A TWH Research Methodology Workshop was convened to discus...

Pittsburgh Research Laboratory (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health)

Published:

2008

Description:

The experience of disaster appears to have become an expected aspect of life. Whether it is a natural disaster such as a hurricane or tsunami, or a human‐made disaster such as terrorism, the effects can be both physically and psychological devastat...